Channel 4: 30 years in pictures

Smack the Pony (1999-2002)
Neurotic, competitive, man-hungry single women were sent up in this sketch show, though enough fun was poked at clueless sex-obsessed men to lift doubts that there was any gender bias. Spot-on comic timing from its three leads – Sally Phillips, Fiona Allen and Doon Mackichan – secured Smack the Pony wide acclaim.